Seimas
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The Seimas is the Lithuanian parliament. It has 141 members that are elected for a four-year term. About half of the members of this legislative body are elected in individual constituencies (71), and the other half (70) are elected by nationwide vote according to proportional representation. A party must receive at least 5%, and a multi-party union at least 7%, of the national vote to be represented in the Seimas.
The word "Seimas" comes from an Lithuanian word "Sueiga, suėjimas" (which means gathering or meeting) it is also though that the polish word "seijm" and Latvian "Saeima" comes from the word "Seimas".[1]
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[edit] Latest election
| Party | Votes (proportional) |
% | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| proportional | constituency | total | |||
| Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Tėvynės sąjunga – Lietuvos krikscionys demokratai) | 242,939 | 19.69 | 18 | 27 | 45 |
| Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija) | 144,675 | 11.73 | 10 | 15 | 25 |
| National Resurrection Party (Tautos prisikėlimo partija) | 186,150 | 15.09 | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| Order and Justice (Tvarka ir teisingumas) | 156,559 | 12.69 | 11 | 4 | 15 |
| Liberals' Movement of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos liberalų sąjūdis) | 70,549 | 5.72 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Coalition Labour Party + Youth (Koalicija Darbo partija + jaunimas) | 111,017 | 9.00 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| Liberal and Centre Union (Liberalų ir centro sąjunga) | 65,869 | 5.34 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija) | 59,222 | 4.80 | — | 3 | 3 |
| Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union (Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sąjunga) | 46,109 | 3.74 | — | 3 | 3 |
| New Union (Social Liberals) (Naujoji sąjunga (socialliberalai)) | 44,935 | 3.64 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Front (Frontas) | 39,966 | 3.24 | — | — | — |
| Young Lithuania (Jaunoji Lietuva) | 21,545 | 1.75 | — | — | — |
| Civic Democratic Party (Pilietinės demokratijos partija) | 13,758 | 1.12 | — | — | — |
| Union of the Russians of Lithuania (Lietuvos rusų sąjunga) | 11,323 | 0.92 | — | — | — |
| Lithuanian Social Democratic Union (Lietuvos socialdemokratų sąjunga) | 10,614 | 0.86 | — | — | — |
| Lithuanian Centre Party (Lietuvos centro partija) | 8,645 | 0.70 | — | — | — |
| Independents | — | — | — | 4 | 4 |
| Total (turnout 48.54%) | 1,233,875 | 100.00 | 70 | 71 | 141 |
| Source: Lithuanian Election Committee (first round, second round) | |||||
[edit] Seimas Palace
Seimas Palace (Lithuanian: Seimo Rūmai) was designed by architects Algimantas and Vytautas Nasvytis and Robertas Stasėnas.[2]
[edit] Speakers of the Seimas
| Speakers of the Seimas (1920–present)[3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Seimas | Speaker | Date started | Date ended |
| Constituent Assembly | Aleksandras Stulginskis | May 15, 1920 | October 6, 1922 |
| First Seimas | Leonas Bistras | November 13, 1922 | March 12, 1923 |
| Second Seimas | Antanas Tumėnas | June 5, 1923 | July 29, 1923 |
| Second Seimas | Justinas Staugaitis | August 10, 1923 | January 27, 1925 |
| Second Seimas | Leonas Bistras | January 27, 1925 | September 25, 1925 |
| Second Seimas | Vytautas Petrulis | September 25, 1925 | June 1926 |
| Third Seimas | Jonas Staugaitis | June 2, 1926 | December 17, 1926 |
| Third Seimas | Aleksandras Stulginskis | December 19, 1926 | April 12, 1927 |
| Fourth Seimas | Konstantinas Šakenis | September 1, 1936 | June 27, 1940 |
| People's Seimas | Liudas Adomauskas | July 1940 | August 1940 |
| Reconstituent Seimas | Vytautas Landsbergis | March 11, 1990 | November 25, 1992 |
| 1992–1996 | Česlovas Juršėnas (acting) | November 25, 1992 | February 25, 1993 |
| 1992–1996 | Česlovas Juršėnas | February 25, 1993 | November 25, 1996 |
| 1996–2000 | Vytautas Landsbergis | November 25, 1996 | October 18, 2000 |
| 2000–2004 | Artūras Paulauskas | October 19, 2000 | April 6, 2004 |
| 2000–2004 | Česlovas Juršėnas (acting) | April 6, 2004 | July 12, 2004 |
| 2000–2004 | Artūras Paulauskas | July 12, 2004 | November 14, 2004 |
| 2004–2008 | Artūras Paulauskas | November 15, 2004 | April 11, 2006 |
| 2004–2008 | Vydas Gedvilas (acting) | April 11, 2006 | April 13, 2006 |
| 2004–2008 | Viktoras Muntianas | April 13, 2006 | April 1, 2008 |
| 2004–2008 | Česlovas Juršėnas | April 1, 2008 | present |
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ http://lt.lietpol.eu/rozne-ciekawostki/o-zapozyczeniach-i-wzajemnym-wplywie-obu-jezykow.html
- ^ Tomas Venclova. Vilnius. R. Paknys Publishing House, Vilnius, 2002, p. 191.
- ^ (Lithuanian) "Seimas". Lietuva I. (2008). Vilnius: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute. 252. ISBN 978-5-420-01639-8.
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